Chapter 5 of Autumn is here in full — 451 sentences across 91 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of Autumn is here in full — 451 sentences across 91 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Ice cream," said Sara hopefully, "and fritters." "All right," said Juliet. She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud. "Here," she said; "here's the ice cream. And here's the fritters.
Chapter 5 of Autumn is here in full — 451 sentences across 91 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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the best people or things in a group
From this reading “"Ice cream," said Sara hopefully, "and fritters."”
a plot of ground where plants are cultivated
From this reading “She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.”
with hope; in a hopeful manner
From this reading “"Ice cream," said Sara hopefully, "and fritters."”
water frozen in the solid state
From this reading “"Ice cream," said Sara hopefully, "and fritters."”
plural of “leaf” — the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
From this reading “She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.”
water soaked soil; soft wet earth
From this reading “She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.”
in the near future
From this reading “She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.”
an old word meaning “from where”
From this reading “She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading "All right," said Juliet.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "Ice cream," said Sara hopefully, "and fritters."
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.
the best people or things in a group
From this reading "Ice cream," said Sara hopefully, "and fritters."
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
From this reading She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “a”; a small but indefinite number
From this reading She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Ice cream," said Sara hopefully, "and fritters."
a plot of ground where plants are cultivated
From this reading She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading "Here," she said; "here's the ice cream.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Here," she said; "here's the ice cream.
with hope; in a hopeful manner
From this reading "Ice cream," said Sara hopefully, "and fritters."
water frozen in the solid state
From this reading "Ice cream," said Sara hopefully, "and fritters."
moving to the inside of something
From this reading She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "All right," said Juliet.
plural of “leaf” — the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
From this reading She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.
water soaked soil; soft wet earth
From this reading She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.
in the near future
From this reading She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.
past form of “return” — go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
From this reading She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.
precisely, exactly
From this reading "All right," said Juliet.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading "Ice cream," said Sara hopefully, "and fritters."
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Ice cream," said Sara hopefully, "and fritters."
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.
inflected form of “go” — change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.
an old word meaning “from where”
From this reading She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.
in the company of; together with
From this reading She went back into the garden, whence she presently returned with a few dead leaves and some mud.
Chapter 5 of Autumn by Robert Nathan holds 451 sentences, grouped into 91 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 5 holds 451 sentences of Autumn, unabridged, divided into 91 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of Autumn by Robert Nathan exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 451 sentences, grouped into 91 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 91 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 91 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
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Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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About 185 minutes of reading across 446 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Autumn section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Autumn, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
